Emerging Leaders Par-Tay
Had a great shindig at The Woods last night for the ABA Emerging Leaders Group. I gotta say, when I pulled up to this random strip mall in Hollywood and saw the bar wedged between a liquor store and a Laundromat, I was skeptical, but the place was awesome. Kitschy, cool, intimate and a great jukebox to boot.....
I got to reconnect with some bookseller buddies and meet some of the authors on hand. Particularly cool was talking with Tony O'Neill author of Down and Out on Murder Mile who used to live right in the L.A. neighborhood back when he had a hard core dug habit (he even used to come to the very bar we were in when it was under a different name!). He fled L.A., cleaned up and wrote a novel. Needless to say his experiences in L.A. we quite different from any that the rest of us at The Woods would be having! He was going around to his old haunts today and creating a book trailer for his forthcoming title. Pretty cool idea......
Cold drinks, cool bar and interesting people. What more would I want out of my Wednesday night at BEA?
-L
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Literature with Pepperoni and Extra Cheese?
Celebrity Mob Book Author
Coming To LA with “A License To Steal”
Who: Walter T. Shaw, Famed ex-jewel thief and author of the acclaimed memoir
A LICENSE TO STEAL.
When: Friday, May 30th
Where: LA BOOK EXPO
BEA Table 28 at 1:30PM
MIDPOINT BOOTH #607 at 3:00PM
Infamous cat burglar Walter T. Shaw will be available for interviews.
Background:
Celebrities are supporting Shaw's desire to give his inventive father his rightful due.
A License To Steal, (Omega Publishing, April ’08, $24.95, hardcover) chronicles the saga of his father, probably one of the most important inventors of our time, who patented Conference Calling, Speakerphone, Touch-Tone Dialing, etc. and was ripped off by corporate America and the mafia, and how this drove Walter himself to become one of the country’s most famous jewel thieves, having taken an estimated $70 million from the rich and famous from Long Island to Florida.
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